Adult life Quote by David Foster

“And I submit that this is what the real, no-shit value of your liberal arts education is supposed to be about: How to keep…

— David Foster Wallace

The basic purpose of a liberal arts education is to liberate the human being to exercise his or her potential to the fullest.

— Barbara M. White

The ability to recognize opportunities and move in new - and sometimes unexpected - directions will benefit you no matter your interests or aspirations.…

— Drew Gilpin Faust

“To go for liberal arts meant becoming that vague, mysterious entity, a 'liberal arts type'--the kind of person who in all likelihood would never…

— Shotaro Yasuoka

“The value of an education in a liberal arts college is not the learning of many facts, but the training of the mind to…

— Albert Einstein

The liberal arts are the arts of communication and thinking. ‘They are the arts indispensable to further learning, for they are the arts of…

— Oliver DeMille

There's a lot to be said for an American-style liberal-arts education, which prevents young people from professionalizing right away.

— Elif Batuman

What is desperately needed... is the skepticism and the sense of history that a liberal arts education provides.

— Felix Rohatyn

I do think that a general liberal arts education is very important, particularly in an uncertain changing world

— Steve Case

I deplore the tendency, in some institutions, to go directly toward training for a trade or profession or something and ignoring the liberal arts.…

— Ronald Reagan

A liberal education forms a single body. Those, therefore, who from tender years receive instruction in the various forms of learning, recognize the same…

— Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

“The really significant education in thinking that we're supposed to get at a [liberal arts college] isn't really about the capacity to think but,…

— David Foster Wallace